December 4, 1986
Dear Hostmaster,
This cover letter is to provide some background concerning
the application by our institution to establish and administer
the .FI domain for Finland.
Tampere University of Technology has been actively involved
with networking in Finland both in local and wide area levels. For
four years we have been providing network services and consultation to
a variety of scientific and other interested communities.
Currently we are a major node in SFNET, the Finnish part of
the UUCP network with X.25 and phone links to most of the academic
UUCP sites in Finland. Starting January 1st, 1987 our role in the
UUCP network will extend as we will, according to the resolution of
the SFNET steering committee, become the Finnish UUCP backbone with
direct X.25 connections to the other European UUCP backbones.
In addition to our UUCP connections, we also serve as a
gateway between SFNET and FUDEC, the Finnish University and Research
Network which covers all DECNet sites in Finnish universities. Also,
we are a site in EARN, the European extension of BITNET. Finally, we
participate actively in an experimental X.400 network sponsored by
RARE, an association of European national research networks.
Locally we operate an Ethernet with more than ten TCP/IP
machines and about the same number of DECNet machines some of which
also run TCP/IP. In very near future we are going to connect our
local internet to similar internets in other Finnish universities (and
also to some internets in Sweden) using public X.25 service and
Ethernet bridges on leased lines.
Our previous experience, good connections to other
sites/networks, and our governmental nature place us in an excellent
position to organize and maintain the .FI domain for Finland.
We have establish working relationships with two U.S. Internet
sites which will facilitate our maintaining .FI domain information
accessible to Internet connected sites.
Should you wish to inquire further about Tampere University of
Technology and its activities, please feel free to contact us
directly. We have also listed a couple of references in the DOD
Internet community and a letter from the chairman of the Finnish
University and Research Network (FUNET) project.
Respectfully,
Seppo Loimio
Director of Administration
Tampere Univ. of Technology
Finland
Tampere University of Technology contact:
Juha Heinanen
Tampere University of Technology
Computer Systems Laboratory
P.O. Box 527
SF-33101 Tampere
Finland
+358 31 162111
jh%tut.uucp@seismo.css.gov
References:
Dave Farber
University of Delaware
Department of Electrical Engineering
Newark, DE 19716
farber@huey.udel.edu
Larry Landweber
Univ. of Wisconsin
Computer Science Department
1210 W. Dayton
Madison, WI 53706
landweber@rsch.wisc.edu
December 4, 1986
Dear Hostmaster,
The Finnish University and Research Network project (FUNET)
has been founded by the government of Finland to coordinate national
research oriented networking efforts, to establish liaison with
similar organizations in other countries, and to participate as a
national body in international networking projects.
Tampere University of Technology as an active member of FUNET
has a wide experience in building and operating various computer
networks. FUNET thus fully supports its Internet domain application
and believes that the university has all the qualifications needed to
successfully administer the domain.
Sincerely,
Matti Ihamuotila
Chairman of FUNET
Finnish State Computer Center
University Support Division
P.O. Box 40
SF-02101 Espoo
Finland
ihamuoti%finfun.bitnet@wiscvm.wisc.edu
December 4, 1986
Dear Hostmaster,
The following is an application to register the top level domain for
Finland (FI) as allowed by RFC920, section "Top Level Domain
Requirements", subsection "Countries". Initially this domain and its
subdomains will be used only for mail, but may eventually participate
in other Internet services.
The FI domain will be the top level domain for all hosts within
Finland. There will be an immediate imposition of a set of second
level domain names probably similar to those used in the United
Kingdom.
Please establish NIC "whois" database entries for the Administrator
and Technical liasons listed below.
1) The name of the top level domain to join.
(root domain)
2) The name, title, mailing address, phone number, and organization
of the administrative head of the organization...
Administrator
Organization Tampere University of Technology
Name Seppo Loimio
Title Administrative Director
Mail Address Tampere University of Technology
P.O. Box 527
SF-33101 Tampere
Finland
Phone Number +358 31 162111
Net Mailbox fi-domain-admin%tut.uucp@seismo.css.gov
NIC-Ident SL45
3) The name, title, mailing address, phone number, and organization
of the domain technical contact...
Technical Contact
Organization Tampere University of Technology
Name Juha Heinanen
Title Associate Professor
Mail Address Tampere University of Technology
P.O. Box 527
SF-33101 Tampere
Finland
Phone Number +358 31 162111
Net Mailbox fi-technical-contact%tut.uucp@seismo.css.gov
NIC-Ident JH141
4) The name, title, mailing address, phone number, and organization
of the zone technical contact...
Technical Contact
(same as the Domain Technical Contact above)
5) The name of the domain. This is the name that will be used in
tables and lists associating the domain and the domain server
addresses.
The top level domain FI.
(FI is the two letter (alpha-2) country code for Finland
as specified by ISO standard 3166)
6) A description of the servers that provide the domain service for
translating name to address for hosts in this domain, and the date
they will be operational.
Our servers will be existing nameservers supplied with
the additional information necessary to serve the FI
domain. They are already operational and will have the
necessary zone information January 1, 1987. The first
two servers will be UNIX machines running the BIND
nameserver (named). The NIC may also be a server if they
wish.
7) A description of the server machines, including:
SEISMO.CSS.GOV: Sun 3/160 Sun 3.0 unix
192.12.141.25 on CSS-ETHER
AOS.BRL.MIL: VAX-11/780 and UNIX,
128.20.1.2 on BRLNET
192.5.22.82 on BRLNET2
192.5.25.82 on BRLNET5
(note: AOS.BRL.MIL is already a root domain server)
8) Planned mapping of names of any other network hosts, other than
the server machines, into the new domain's naming space.
None.
9) Delegation for networks in your domain for inclusion in the
IN-ADDR.ZONE files, and the fully qualified domain names for the
IN-ADDR server sites for each network.
None.
10) An estimate of the number of hosts that will be in the domain.
(a) initially = 100
(b) one year = 150
(c) two years = 300
(d) five years = 1000
11) A date when you expect the fully qualified domain name to
become the official host name in HOSTS.TXT.
Not applicable.